Ingo Swann
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| Type | Person |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Swann |
| On the Timeline | 2 events, 1972–1995 |
Ingo Douglass Swann (14 September 1933 – 31 January 2013) was an American psychic, artist and author, credited with coining the term "remote viewing". His experiments at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972 drew CIA interest and helped start the government program later known as Stargate.[1]
Early life
Swann was born in Telluride, Colorado. He said he had out-of-body experiences from the age of three, and volunteered for parapsychology research in his late thirties. He was for a time a member of the Church of Scientology, which he left in the late 1970s.[1]
SRI experiments
In 1972 Swann took part in tests at the American Society for Psychical Research and then at SRI with physicists Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ. He is credited with proposing "coordinate remote viewing", in which the viewer is given only map coordinates of a target, which Puthoff and Targ developed with CIA funding. Swann and SRI claimed high accuracy rates, but critics argued that results were selectively reported; in one series only the last of ten runs was published.[1][2]
Jupiter session
On 27 April 1973 Swann attempted to "view" the planet Jupiter in a session recorded by Targ and Puthoff, years before the Voyager probes visited it in 1979. He described crystal bands that supporters compare with Jupiter's faint rings, discovered by Voyager; the rings are not in the planet's atmosphere as he described, though NASA's Galileo probe later found ammonia ice clouds there. His later account of the session differs from the transcript published in 1977.[1]
Stargate
Swann was associated with the U.S. government's remote-viewing program and is reported to have trained U.S. Army officers and a civilian for the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1983. He said that of 25 criminal cases he worked on between 1972 and 1979, three were successes and 22 failures.[1][3]
UFOs and later books
Swann was a supporter of ufology. His 1998 book Penetration claimed that extraterrestrials lived on Earth in human form, that he had remotely viewed a secret base on the far side of the Moon, and described a UFO encounter in Alaska; these claims are unverified. He died in New York City in 2013.[1]
On the UAP Timeline
- Ingo Swann's magnetometer test (1972) (June 1972) — Ingo Swann's remote-viewing test with SRI leads to a CIA contract months later.
- Clinton witness order claim (1995) (31 March 1995) — Vallée says he was told President Clinton signed an order protecting certain witnesses.
References
- Ingo Swann — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Russell Targ — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Kenneth Kress, "Parapsychology in Intelligence", via Parascope · web.archive.org · archived copy
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